Dough-dividing machine.



P. MIELEK.

BOUGE DIVIDING MAGHINE. APPLICATION FILED DEU. 30. 1902. v

N0 MODEL.

Nt. 738,692; Y

UNIlrED STATES Patented September 8, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

ooyeH-mvlome MAei-uNs.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Lettersl Patent No. Ii'-?l8,692, dated September 8, 1903.

Application led December 30, 1902l Serial No. 187,196. (Io model.) l

To all whom it my concern.- v

Be it known that I, PAUL MIELEKE, asubject of the Emperor of Germany, and a. resident of Oderbcrg i. Mark, Germany, havein- Vented certain new and useful Improvements in Dough-Dividing Machines, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to-a machine serving to divide the dough into pieces of equal size, toform the pieces, to place them upon a board, and to remove automatically the board charged with the pieces.

The new machine is shown in the panying drawings, in wvhich-` Figure lis a vertical' longitudinal section through the machine. Figs. 2 and 3 are eievations of different molding-plates. l

Upon a table a a casing c', preferably of a rectangular cross-section, is supported by the uprights b and b', said casing being adapted to receive the dough, previously prepared by hand or otherwise. The dough is charged into thecasing through an opening on the top,

which is afterward closed by a'lidd, which can be lirmly seeuredgin its seat by means of 'a screw-spindle f, passing through nut in the strap e. A piston g on a rod 7L is adapted to act on the dough by pressure,the rodhV being solidly connected to rack-bar k by means of a head t.

the driVing-shaftlof the machine. Byturning the crank of said driving-shaft the piston presses the dough through the openings of the front plate or molding-plate q, which isinterchangeablc, so that molding-plates with I any form of opening may be used. (See Figs.

Said rack-bar is 'in gearwith a'toothed sector nl, which is kcyedon they strike the advancing dough and cut it o from the mold-plate. The wires can beadjusted in position and two, four, or more may be vemployed in order to repeat the cutting action more or less frequently during the revosmaller pieces of dough w, which fall down upon a board fu. This board is supported by rollers p p', and a slow longitudinal motion is communicated to it by star-wheels y y', one of which receives motion by means of a belt z (shown in dotted lines in Fig. l) in the ordinary well-known manner. The star-wheel y is j ournaled in bearings,whicha1'e weighted, as shown in Fig. l, so as to produce a contact of the wheels with the board v under pressure and thus to insure the engagement.

In order to adjust the cutting-wires in positionor to increase their number, the disks t are provided with circular concentric slots s, in which blocks can slide carrying the wires in suitable perforations. Nuts ou the outside of the disks are used to secure the blocks wit the wires in the adjusted position.

What I claim as my invention, and desire `to secure by Letters Patent, -is` 'A machine for dividing dough, comprising ofsaid mold-plate a drivin shaft'withdisks,

PAUL lvuELn'KE. In presence of- HENRY' HAsPnR, WoLocMAn HAUPT.

a casing, provided with a presser-piston andan interchangeable mold-plate having in front,

,lation of the shaft, so as to obtain larger or i provided with circular slo s havingadjustf- 

